Top 5 most-read stories last week
Austin Colbert/The Aspen Times
Stories in this list received the most page views on aspentimes.com from April 21-28.
1. Closing Day on Ajax brings end to to Aspen’s ski season
The ski season is officially a wrap here in the Roaring Fork Valley, with Sunday’s annual closing day party at the Sundeck on Aspen Mountain the winter’s final hurrah.
Snowmass Ski Area also shuttered its chairlifts on Sunday after hosting most of its closing festivities, including the popular pond skim challenge, on Saturday from Elk Camp.
-Austin Colbert
2. Staple Snowmass store to close as owner retires
Since the 1970s, Sherry Flack and her retail businesses have been a recognizable part of Aspen and Snowmass. Now, after half a century, Flack has made the decision to retire.
She started in the fashion industry in college, working her way through school and realizing how much she enjoyed it.
“They all said I had a knack for it,” she said of her former employers.
With a pep in her step, she moved to Denver after college and went on a silkscreen T-shirt franchise called Shirt Off My Back with two others. They decided to open in Aspen in the A-frames across from Aspen Mountain.
“It did really well,” Flack said. “We had celebrities and people waiting out in the snow to get in. We were so busy, it was crazy.”
-River Stingray
3. Snowmass announces free concert series lineup
Snowmass announced its summer 2025 free concert series last week, which will run from June 12 to Aug. 21.
For its 33rd year, the town will host live music from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. every Thursday evening on Fanny Hill, according to a Snowmass Tourism press release.
Snowmass Tourism Director Julia Theisen said this summer’s concert series will be unlike anything the town has had in the past.
-Staff report
4. Assault at Aspen gym leads to arrest
Police are investigating an assault call that took place outside Jean-Robert’s Gym in Aspen on Wednesday afternoon.
Witnesses reported the arrival of five to six police vehicles, and one person was taken into custody at the scene.
“I am not completely sure what happened, but I have a video of what happened,” said a witness, who The Aspen Times is not naming at this time. “There was a high school-looking kid who was taunting people in the gym, like pointing to people to come outside to fight.”
-Westley Crouch
5. 112-year-old Silt home full of history, charm and gemstones hits the market
There’s a lot of history around Garfield County — from the sacred Yampah Vapor Caves in Glenwood Springs, where Native Americans once sought healing, to the Bookcliffs Arts Center in Rifle, a former homestead for the Morrow family.
Tucked into Eighth Street in Silt sits another local relic: a home built in 1913 that’s still standing, fully functional, and about to hit the market for just the second time in its 112-year history.
The home is currently occupied by Dennie Rae; however, Rae hadn’t planned on it: She acquired the house from the estate of her brother, Richard DeWyne, who passed away in 2021. She bought the house to close his estate.
-Katherine Tomanek
Aspen discusses Lift One corridor project
On the evening of Monday, May 5, the Aspen City Council convened a work session to examine the evolving financial and logistical landscape of the Lift One Corridor project.
New Colorado gun law triggers response in Pitkin County, Basalt
Colorado’s new law introduces sweeping restrictions on the manufacture, sale, and ownership of certain semiautomatic firearms and devices designed to increase firing speed.
